lights on the path

inspiration from the others

Not all questions seek answers, some seek journeys.

Though he had always been a careful planner, life on the frontier had long ago convinced him of the fragility of plans. The truth was, most plans did fail, to one degree or another, for one reason or another. He had survived as a Ranger because he was quick to respond to what he had actually found, not because his planning was infallible.

Larry McMurtry • Lonesome Dove

Too Many Places Are STERILE and TORCHED — Let’s Make Them COOL and FUNKY

Jonah & Erin blackbirdspyplane.com

Kurt, Dave and Chris:

First let me apologize for taking a couple of days to put this outline together. When I spoke to Kurt I was in the middle of making a Fugazi album1, but I thought I would have a day or so between records to sort everything out. My schedule changed unexpectedly, and this is the first moment I've had to go through it all. Apology

Shaun Usher • I would like to be paid like a plumber

What a mystery the way things act on us, like secret messages just to you as you sit in the dark.

Dana Spiotta • Innocents and Others

To paraphrase Antoine Saint-Exupéry, we may say: rituals are in life what things are in space.

Byung-Chul Han • The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present

I have noticed that when all the lights are on, people tend to talk about what they are doing – their outer lives. Sitting round in candlelight or firelight, people start to talk about how they are feeling – their inner lives. They speak subjectively, they argue less, there are longer pauses.

To sit alone without any electric light is curiously... See more

Jeanette Winterson • Why I Adore the Night, by Jeanette Winterson